They may even alienate or antagonize some respondents so that they refuse to complete the interview.
Nor do they want to admit a mistake or antagonize investors who might have to sell after a downgrade.
So he is trying to lay out the serious consequences that the city will face if it does not get that help, without seeming to threaten or antagonize his allies in Albany and Washington.
It remains an open question whether the distance he seeks to place between himself and Democrats on Capitol Hill — his own version of triangulation — will attract independent voters or antagonize members of his party.
O.K., Mr. Netanyahu has a strategy: Do nothing vis-à-vis the Palestinians or Turkey that will require him to go against his base, compromise his ideology or antagonize his key coalition partner, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, an extreme right-winger.
Focus on an NPC walking around camp, and L2 opens up the options to greet or antagonize them.
Although natural killer (NK) cells can be readily generated for adoptive therapy with current techniques, their optimal application to treat malignant diseases requires an appreciation of the dynamic balance between signals that either synergize with or antagonize each other.
Glucose is an important inducer of insulin secretion, but it also stimulates long-term adaptive changes in gene expression that can either promote or antagonize the proliferative potential and function of β cells.
The activity of JH III or JH III-like structures, but not structures without JH III biological activity, to bind specifically to dUSP and activate its conformational change, provide evidence of a terpenoid endogenous ligand for Ultraspiracle, and offer the prospect that synthetic, terpenoid structures may be discovered that can agonize or antagonize USP function in vivo.
Cytokines are peptides that are produced by virtually every nucleated cell type in the body, possess overlapping biological activities, exert different effects at different concentrations, can either synergize or antagonize the effects of other cytokines, are regulated in a complex manner, and function via cytokine cascades.
When Descartes was informed about this disputation (when it was already too late to recommend amendments), he responded that there was hardly anything more likely to offend or antagonize theologians than to say that a human being "is an accidental being" (AT III, 460: Bos 2002, 90 91).
